Can you help New Hampshire enact marriage equality and gender identity protections today? Do you know any family or friends in New Hampshire? Potential allies in the state Senate say they are not hearing from marriage equality and gender identity protection advocates. Please email or call your New Hampshire network today!
From the Human Rights Campaign today:
The New Hampshire House has passed two important bills: a bill to add gender identity and expression protections to the state’s anti-discrimination and hate crimes laws and a bill to replace the separate and unequal civil union system with full marriage equality under state law for lesbian and gay couples in loving and committed relationships.
Both of these bills now await action by the state senate. Please take action now by contacting your state senator and asking him or her to vote yes on both bills!
Your message will be most effective if you are able to share a bit about yourself and why you support these bills.
All state Senators need to hear from marriage equality and gender identity protection supporters today, but in particular Sen. Deb Reynolds from Plymouth, Senate Leader Sylvia Larsen and Sen. Karen Sgambati need more constituent feedback.
Right now.
Please pass both these links along to your New Hampshire friends and family. The first allows for emails; the second provides direct email & phone contact information.
Email: http://www.hrcactioncenter.org/campaign/nhmarriagediscrim
Senate phone/email list: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/senate/senatemembers.asp
Thanks for standing up for marriage equality and gender identity protection in the Granite State. Winning a New Hampshire victory will continue the momentum of Connecticut, Iowa, and Vermont.
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College classmates? High school friends who’ve moved up from the Boston Beltway? Aunts, uncles, cousins? Siblings, nephews, nieces? Anyone have any New Hampshire friends and relative they can touch base with TODAY to move this historic legislation forward?
Thank you!
This is OT, but related, so I hope it’s OK, Teddy.
Some Iowans thought we should do something to make it easy and enjoyable to get married here after that terrific court decision. So we have a new blog up, hosted by Iowa Guy, called Hitched in the Heartland. We will be adding info about pastors and rabbis, honeymoon destinations, and other helpful topics. Iowa Guy would be delighted to have suggestions from potential users of this information about what they would like to know about.
Looking forward to some wonderful photos from Iowa weddings later this month, Susan. So glad to hear from you!
Teddy, I know it must seem terribly slow to those who want to get married but we are getting there. Inch by inch we are dragging the country into the 21st century and that’s a great thing. My cousin already got married in Cali during that window that opened briefly. Hope you and your partner will soon be able to do the same.
Thank you, Twain.
It’s wonderful to see states move in the right direction on this through their legislatures, too, because there are so many quotes from right-wingers criticizing judges and saying that the issue should be addressed only by the peoples’ elected representatives. Which they are now doing!
This momentum, if picked up by New York and New Jersey soon, will be unstoppable. And then we will have a critical mass of marrying-states to challenge the federal DOMA.
Teddy, Thanks for the effort. Less than an hour ago, the NH Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously (two Republicans and three Democrats) voted against the bill. It will go to the full Senate with a recommendation of Inexpediant to Legislate. The House tried!
Oh, and they killed gay marriage, too. On a vote of 3 to 2 (two Democrats opposed killing it). The House tried!